People want to see the world the way they want to see it, not the way it is. George Pelecanos Read Quote
When I was a teenager, I thought if any of my friends or people at school see me reading a book, they’re gonna think I’m weak. So I didn’t even do it in private. Then I grew up, got into college, and the teachers turned me on to books, and I got hooked. George Pelecanos Read Quote
As far as I’m concerned, the voices of Washington, black Washington, it’s poetry, man. There’s beauty in it. George Pelecanos Read Quote
Many fathers and sons never get to reconcile their differences or come to an understanding that fills the gap between love and expectations. George Pelecanos Read Quote
I was a child in the ’60s and a teenager in the ’70s, which was the golden age of film as far as I’m concerned, between American film and the Italian reinvention of genre film. George Pelecanos Read Quote
I do feel like that’s what a writer does, is he goes into other people’s heads. George Pelecanos Read Quote
True Grit’ is one of the few books my sons let me read to them – and paid attention to – when they were younger. George Pelecanos Read Quote
I’m proudly a crime writer, but it would be really inaccurate to call me a mystery writer. George Pelecanos Read Quote
